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Shakespeare on Love: A Love for Modern Times?

By: kgawlowski February 12, 2016February 23, 2016

Holidays, Shakespearea midsummer night's dream, for students, for teachers, interesting, literature, love, noteworthy, perspective, plays, Poetry, romeo and juliet, Shakespeare, taming of the shrew, valentines day, winter's tale

For one often hailed as the Bard of love stories, Shakespeare sure has a weird way of showing/telling it. Even his most famous tale of romance, Romeo and Juliet, is a little…off…in the love department, at least for modern times. Romeo and Juliet isn’t the only Shakespeare work that is little bit strange; in fact a pretty large number of his works depict love in ways…

A Shakespearean Mash Up

By: jhgardner June 25, 2013

Arts, Shakespeare, Teachers & Teachinga midsummer night's dream, hamlet, macbeth, plays, Shakespeare, Teaching, teaching Shakespeare, theater, troubadour theater company, troubies

This summer the Los Angeles based Troubadour Theater Company is reprising its role as masters of the Shakespearean mash up. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you A Midsummer Saturday Night’s Fever Dream. You may have guessed it, though you might not believe it: one theater company has poured all the funk, bellbottoms, and embarrassing dance…